Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Croatia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ludus to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smoke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
the Human League,
the Soft Cell,
The Leaves,
Roxette,
The Busters,
Rotary Connection,
Flipper,
Isaac Hayes,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ohio Players,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jacques Brel,
The Walker Brothers,
The Invisible,
The Sound,
Sex Pistols,
Robert Görl,
Trumans Water,
The Durutti Column,
Janne Schatter,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Groovy Waters,
Prince Buster,
Todd Terry,
The Monochrome Set,
Graham Central Station,
Gong,
The Smiths,
Gang Gang Dance,
Con Funk Shun,
8 Eyed Spy,
Faust,
Sun Ra,
the Association,
The Slackers,
Lyres,
Dark Day,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Boredoms,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Offenders,
Easy Going,
One Last Wish,
Basic Channel,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
ABC,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Mission of Burma,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Pop Group,
Maleditus Sound,
Jerry Gold Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
Sixth Finger,
Deakin,
Subhumans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.